Well, the Redskins lost, which is supposed to be a good sign for John Kerry’s prospects on Tuesday. My sister the (American) football fanatic, who is more of an emotional Kerry supporter than one who comes to her decision based on solid facts, told me the whole Redskins-election-predictor theory. Yes, correlation != causation, but, as Salon says, “Everyone knows a football game isn’t going to decide this election. But by golly, when it’s this close, every tea leaf is going to get treated like the Ten Commandments.”

My mother reported in from Florida tonight that she’s been absolutely amazed at the enormous lines at all the early voting sites in West Palm Beach and in Broward County. For some strange reason (she’s a retiree), she was out very early on Friday morning and said that there was a huge line around the Public Library in Delray Beach. Most of the people she knows are voting Kerry, and most of them have voted already.

And one more family surprise: my aunt, a notorious “forwarder”, whose politics have generally been somewhat more hawkish than Paul Wolfowitz, sent me a pro-Kerry e-mail today. I groaned when I got the email, entitled, “10 Things to Know About John Kerry“, certain it was going to be filled with Swift Boat Liar crap or some other distortions. Boy was I surprised when I opened it and read the first sentence: “Election Day is only a few days away. And the campaign of disinformation and distortions against John Kerry is still going strong within the Jewish community.” It then proceeded to outline a number or positives about Kerry, which — even more surprisingly — didn’t ALL concern Israel! The e-mail originated with the National Jewish Democratic Council, an organization which I hadn’t heard of, but, if they can convince my aunt, they must be doing something right!
Then there’s the Electoral Vote Predictor at electoral-vote.com, which is showing Kerry with 283 votes tonight. The knot in my stomach is getting a little looser.